2 March USA.one published the story of Mary Skripchenko, who called himself “a refugee from Kazakhstan”. We gave the heroine the opportunity to tell about his life at home without any reductions or cuts from our side, as well as to hear the opinions of our readers on this occasion. The editorial team was aimed at one thing — to show the underside of one of the political cases (or, as the Americans say, cases) of the United States.
Just an hour after publishing, the site literally exploded — so many messages we have received, perhaps, never. The inhabitants of Kazakhstan did not believe in this story and was suspected of cheating before all of us. Soon, however, they found that in the part of the story, which lists names, dates and positions, all right — Mariya Skripchenko really lived in near Alma-ATA, her mother really died a violent death, the heroine worked in a local Bank and from his first marriage has a daughter. However, residents of Kaskelen, who wrote to the editors, among whom were many non-Kazakhs, did not confirm, but rather fully denied that part of the story where Mary spoke about the harassment on ethnic grounds. — The President of Kazakhstan even in the United States were in the Russian language, wrote one of the readers. Maria is sure that the immigration officers have not seen that his performances?
Below is the second part of this story. No, it’s not a continuation of the story of the Maria. Her debunking is the task of the immigration officer or judge. This argument about whether it is possible, by lying to the immigration officer to obtain a residence permit in the United States.
In USA there are two types of assistance to those who are not happy in their home countries — or the granting of status of refugee, or political asylum. First give those who ask for it outside the US. There are quotas and limits — the States will not accept more refugees than approved by the head of the country.
The second option is something simpler: it is necessary to come to the U.S. on a tourist or other nonimmigrant visa and is already in place to ask for political asylum. Or do it on the border with Mexico, in one of the border points. There is no quota, nor any restrictions. Moreover, the timing is usually faster than the first option. And suggests the possibility of dashing to make refugees of the first type checking much more thoroughly than the second.
No wonder many an escape plan is very simple: get, for example, a tourist visa, arrive in the same new York, find lawyer, lying to him that in his native country poor and persecuted, it helps you to write a letter to the immigration Department, fingerprinted, get a work permit and waiting for an interview with the officer. And then, as luck — if you’re a good liar and you have an experienced lawyer, plus, in the country where you went for your stay, for example, have become worse treat gays or shut down opposition media, then, Yes, consider all the documents you have in your pocket.
Another thing is that the immigration office does not want to a) they were considered quite stupid, b) political asylum was given to those who have no right to claim him. But because immigration officers undergo continuous training — they provide data on the countries where the US people running, and this includes is very much, such as actually belong to this or the former Soviet Republic to those who speak Russian, and not in the local language. About it could not be better-informed and American lawyers specializing in for those requesting political asylum in the United States.
Gregory Finkelson, General Manager of law company, American Corporate Services Law Offices, Inc., which including is engaged in political immigrants, said USA.one some of the questions associated with the story of Mary, and of such asylum applications.
For the sake of experiment we published details of the political Keyes a native of Kazakhstan Maria Skripchenko. She argues that the Russian language is subjected in the country of persecution, on this basis, asks for political asylum in the United States. Our note called lightning reaction among the residents of Kazakhstan. They accused Mary of lying, the desire to obtain a residence permit at any price. You probably have repeatedly faced with situations when you know that your client just a void, lies, and no persecution, but only the desire to remain in the United States. Does your duty to warn customers that a lie could lead to deportation with a ban to approach US?
Your character apparently didn’t consult his lawyer, because the details of the case and the name of the customer can not publish. The law protects those who are seeking asylum in the United States and for the leak of information an immigration lawyer in our country may lose its license.
As for us. Our immigration office does not set himself the task of catching a customer in a lie. That being said, remains on conscience of the client. On the contrary, we always recommend the client to tell the truth. On the other hand, we know clearly what the situation of the client’s life can serve as a basis for granting him/her the status of political asylum and which do not. That is what you should pay attention to, and what you can skip. In addition, we carefully prepare the client for an interview with an immigration officer. It is extremely important to obtain the status.
Okay. Immigration attorneys do not aim to catch a client in a lie. In this case, is there such a goal by the US immigration service? And, if man is still caught in a lie that he faces?
During the interview with the immigration officer the petitioner on the status of political refugee really needs to prove the facts of the persecution in the homeland and also his/her reasonable fear for his life or for the life and health of loved ones. And Yes, the task of the immigration officer to expose the Complainant on the inconsistencies of facts or lies. If the immigration officer doubts the veracity of the story is, it refuses to provide status. However, then you can change the situation in court.
Judging by the statistics, which can be easily found in Google, about 40% of those who filed for political asylum will be interviewed the first time. Do you have your own stats on this? And what are the odds of those who did not pass an interview to get the status in court?
This statistic does not separate clients of the petition which was prepared by the lawyers of the United States from clients who submitted documents to the immigration office by yourself. In my opinion the petition prepared by professionals who have a completely different level and, accordingly, a much greater probability of a positive decision.
Overall, the success of the interview depends on the following factors: — the reality of the history of the client and availability of documentary evidence; — the level of quality of the documentsthat are submitted to the immigration office; — the ability of the client to submit his story orally and to answer questions of the immigration officer during the interview
To return to the work of Mary Skripchenko. Now her former compatriots in Kazakhstan, check the information that she told us in an interview. They say them all collected data will be sent to USCIS to prove Maria claims to refugee status in a vacuum, her whole story is a fake. Do you think this is a serious threat? Does this kind of information the immigration service? Or all sinking in megatons calls?
Then as luck or no luck. Compromising the information provided to USCIS may be reviewed and no. The USCIS is a huge bureaucracy.
Does immigration verification documents that are sent there, those who claim refugee status? Queried whether the police Department on the subject mentioned in the case of criminal cases or the hospital where the victim allegedly received after he was beaten? In General there is some filter validation in this case?
If USCIS has serious doubts on the case of the client, they may, through the consular section to request all the necessary information.
Remember the wave of indignation after you said that you asked the employees of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco asking for help in obtaining refugee status in the United States after it was closed. Tell me, what are the chances of a person who worked in the Consulate or Embassy to obtain such a status? It seems like he was here at the public trough, loyal and all that… Or place of work has no value?
A former employee of the Consulate of the foreign state which asks for the status of political refugee in the USA, has increased the chances of receiving it, as it may have information of interest to American intelligence agencies. And the higher the rank the more it is interesting to them.
To know, asked if someone from the former Embassy employees political asylum in the US not to until he asked about it will tell. In open access on US websites there are only numbers and references to the States: how many people asked for asylum, in what States it happens more often, how long to wait for an interview with an immigration officer and so on. Nothing more — no names or even specific cities in the US where the people fled. Keep track of primary data on polit.refugees on the site wrapsnet.org. They are there twice a week and this is not surprising — those who need (or alleged need) help, come to US literally every hour, but because the information is changing.
Many of those who fled to the United States, I don’t know that military conflict and the difficult financial situation (lack of work, desire to correct their economic situation) is not a reason to seek political asylum in this country. It simply will not provide. The reasons can only be persecution on the grounds of race, religion, political belief and membership to a social group (homosexuals generally).
If very to simplify, the diagram looks like this: can’t speak a comfortable language for you? Welcome to the USA!
Your home was bombed, but you can speak a comfortable language for you, you can pray to your God and to hide that you’re gay? No, we will not give you political asylum go to the refugee camp, go to the family, where there is no war, but don’t come to the United States.
And now for the statistics taken from the site listed above. The first number is the number of queries, the second — the number of people (one request equals one family, even if it consists of one person).
So, since the first of October last year and March 16, 2018 in the United States asked for asylum from citizens:
Armenia
22
46
Belarus
35
112
Kyrgyzstan
3
3
Moldova
46
108
Russia
68
200
Ukraine
327
1027
Uzbekistan
4
11
And Kazakhstan — 6 cases, the total number of ten people.
The case of Maria in these six appeals is not included, it came to the US almost four years ago.
Again, officially these people do not escape from wars or poverty, and oppression for the views.
Citizens of Kazakhstan, rebellious story of Julia, will be particularly interesting to learn statistics on countries of the former USSR, and the data, for example, in Europe. So, for the same period for political asylum in the United States has asked the family from Spain, numbering six people, one Swede (Yes Swede), 71 Israeli citizen (no, it is not reported, the Arabs or the Jews) and five from New Zealand (Yes, also for political reasons), and another thirteen from Austria and fifty-three from Malta. Yes, we would also like to know how and whom to oppress, for example, in Sweden, but, unfortunately, until the man himself can not tell, we do not know. As well as about the others. But the fact remains — in the United States are fleeing from all over the world, and even if the Swede found something to complain about in their own country, is it any wonder our former compatriots…
Currently, all requests for political asylum in the United States are either under the supervision of the staff of the Department of homeland security (The Department of Homeland Security) or the immigration courts of the Ministry of justice come to them things are already those who have not passed the interview with the officers of the Department and may be deported back to their homeland.
According to official statistics, about 40% of all applicants will pass an interview with the officer will receive refugee status, and with it a residence permit in the United States, as well as bonuses in the form of medical insurance and certain material benefits.
The rest will go to prove that you can’t go back to the next level — the immigration court. Is there someone to believe, and the rest will still have to sue for the opportunity to stay in the United States. In the end, luck is not all — someone will be deported back to their homeland, because it is not proved that on arrival he’s going to prison, persecution or even death, or because they lied and were caught lying.
Perhaps the most sensational case of fake political refugee status was a case of a woman who claimed that she was raped himself, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International monetary Fund, which was intended for the office of President of France. In may 2011, a Ms. Diallo is five minutes of revelations once and for all undermined the career of Dominic. However, when it came to court, the native of Guinea who lives in new York, I had to admit that the political asylum in the United States, she received a fraud by lying to the officer deportation service that she was raped at home in Guinea.
Diallo, of course, not the first and certainly not the last, who took the opportunity to stay in the US for fraud. But one of the few who has been caught in a lie. If to speak about individual cases of deception, reveal, perhaps, the brightest. It is a native of Palestine, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two residents of Israel, will be among the political refugees, the former Bosnian soldier who participated in ethnic cleansing during the breakup of Yugoslavia. But no, no, admit employees of Department of internal security — the lion’s share of deception is never revealed. For the most part, the applicants, deceived officers, become holders of green cards, and then citizens of the country, although no reason for this, they did not have. Moreover, many received the precious document, begin to vehemently support the regimes of the country where, supposedly, escaped.
For some time, and the U.S. government does not sit in place, and actively working to bring the liars to clean water. Moreover, since 2011, the number of those who ask for political asylum has been steadily growing. But whereas the officers of the immigration Department investigated a single case, now take those where you can open the whole fraudulent scheme. Africa, the countries of the former Soviet Union, China… they are processed from the whole country. And this way of working.
For example, at the time, were identified from three hundred immigrants involved in the atrocities during the war in Yugoslavia. They all arrived in the US as refugees and were deported back, when it was revealed a lie.
But especially revealing is the example of China. Today refugees there are very few, despite the fact that recently the Chinese accounted for more than 60% of the total number of those who asked for help. All because a few years ago in new York was arrested dozens of people, including the lawyer who helped to obtain a residence permit in USA fake refugees. By the way deportation from the country is just another form of punishment. In some States and some cases for fraud with visas can be jailed for ten years. And then to be deported.
I, as a lawyer we undertake all cases. I never said none of his client — did you write everything from beginning to end! But I do not sympathize with those who lie, and then receives the status. Our immigration system was created in order to help people fleeing real persecution. Those who are lying, not just damage the system, for example, undermining the public confidence in them, they harm legitimate asylum seekers. After all, they the cases moves very slowly, plus the lost trust, and each officers look almost as an enemy of the United States!
On the other hand I understand why some people lie. What liars are those who have no lies quite a sufficient reason to obtain asylum in the United States! But they have lost faith in the government. They lost faith in the rulers of their country, they constantly lied, broke the law (or not survive), giving bribes… and with this feeling of disbelief and distrust came to the United States. And then they think that arguments and facts are not enough, and therefore “let me lie still!”. So I say to all — do not lie! Don’t make stupid mistakes. Escaped from Belarus and received status in the United States? It is not necessary to spend every holiday in Belarus, driving there with a green card, what are you doing? Are you still under the supervision of the authorities!
Or that your case women from Kazakhstan. If it is for a visa with Embassy officers spoke Russian, few chances you have. The immigration Department takes the data about what is happening in a country diplomats. Not that they are morons. It is unfortunate that the credibility of the us, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, lost and now our refugees, check almost under a magnifying glass. And all because of lies… — told us the lawyer from new York Arthur, who asked not to mention his name.
Under a magnifying glass check now, if not all, the many. Starting in 2012, only in new York city closed dozens of firms that help to make documents for obtaining the status of “political refugee”. The lion’s share of them were served by immigrants from China. During the Grand investigation was condemned by many, including lawyer John Vang, through the law office which is only two years 1300 Chinese citizens received residence permits in the United States.
Evidence gathered through wiretapping — customers are not shy about telling lawyers that just want to get asylum. The lawyers did not hesitate to give clients advice on how to break the law out loud and think out the details of their life in China. Immediately after thirty people (translators, assistants of advocates, members of the Church…) was arrested and then appeared before the court, the number of refugees from China began to wane. At the moment when it became known that the Chinese have literally established channel for obtaining a residence permit, the credibility of the officers of the immigration Department has fallen so much that in the same new York in 2013, was only approved 15% of the total number of references. A team of officers who worked on the Affairs of China has tripled, lifted from the archives of those who received asylum even two years ago.
Most Americans are amazed that in this deception, put on stream and participated in the Church. So, the Church at flushing (new York) are willing to issue certificates that their parishioners are followers of the Christian faith, which is also not encouraged in China. And in another Church was doing photos in Photoshop — imposed images of applicants for asylum in the pictures really beaten by the police in China. And so received “proof” of the atrocities of the police.
Today, the immigration office sends every effort to identify dishonest applicants and positive results are already there. But to cope with this problem 100% they never. According to experts, a false application for asylum are among the most common forms of immigration fraud. For the most part, this is because they are difficult to detect. Not only that, many are fleeing from areas of armed conflict where it is difficult to bring supporting documents, plus the human factor — the officers often have to rely on their intuition and every day to realize his decision, they can bring the case before the deportation and to send a man to certain death.
Maybe someday the laws will be changed to deceive the immigration officer will become harder. But now… now the law says you can petition for asylum even if you have no reason for it. It is not forbidden, there is a presumption of innocence — as long as the judge does not decide on fault grounds, one can not assume that these grounds there. And that means you can legally live in the United States, work…
Who knows, maybe that did the same Swedish? Indeed, why go to the trouble to renew a tourist visa, which, incidentally, can not work, why look for those who can issue you a working visa (which is extremely hard), when you can only contact the immigration Department for years, and legally live in the United States for a solution. And who knows what can happen in those years of waiting?
